Mike Potter talks about whats next for Open Atrium

1. THE LEADER IN DRUPAL PLATFORM DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
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2. OPEN ATRIUM 2.0
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3. OPEN ATRIUM 2.0
• Mike Potter
Phase2 Technology
• mpotter on Drupal.org
• mpotter@phase2technology.com
openatrium@phase2technology.com
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4. OPEN ATRIUM 2.0
What’s new since DrupalCon Denver and Munich?
• Continued to collect feedback from users and community.
• Formed a full Open Atrium Project Team within Phase2.
• Developed technical architecture.
• Developed roadmap and milestones.
• Started Development!
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5. NEW TEAM
• New technical lead (mpotter on drupal.org)
• Full project team within Phase2 Technology
• treating Open Atrium 2.0 as a “client project”
• additional developer support
• Industry partnership and sponsorship
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6. ARCHITECTURE UPDATE
• Modular architecture (Apps)
• Flexible layout via Panels (Panopoly)
• Mobile-friendly responsive base theme
• Full integration with Drupal 7 (Entities, Node Access, etc)
• Easier to integrate 3rd-party systems
• Available as a distribution or set of modules
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7. MODULAR ARCHITECTURE
• Core based upon Organic Groups 2.x
Panopoly OpenAtrium OpenAtrium OpenAtrium OpenAtrium
Widgets Panels Discussion Documents Tasks
Apps
Panopoly Core OpenAtrium Core
• Flexible and modular “Apps” Views Panels
Organic
Groups
Apps Features Contrib
Drupal 7 core Core
• Discussion, Documents, Tasks, etc
OpenAtrium
• New “section page” functionality Panopoly
• New “teams” organization
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8. LAYOUT CUSTOMIZATION
• OA2 distribution will be based upon Panopoly
• Custom “section pages” rather than Features “Tabs”
• Customization of Sections via Panelizer
• Wide array of “widgets” to be added to panes
• Compatibility with Context and Boxes modules
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9. NEW FEATURES
• Customizable Section pages
• Organize users into multiple “Teams”
• Add Teams to Groups, Notifications, Access Control
• Allows for private sub-sections within a Group
• Lots and lots of smaller improvements (wysiwyg, etc)
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10. RESPONSIVE THEME
• Base responsive theme will be used
• Likely Zen or AdaptiveTheme
• OA2 dependancies removed from Theme
• A new small sub-theme for the out-of-the-box distribution
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11. GROUPS
• Collections of people around a common interest
• Projects, Departments, Groups, Teams, Offices
• can be named anything you want
• Group Owners can customize group and manage Members
• Groups can be Public or Private
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12. SECTIONS
• Each Group has one or more Section pages
• Each Section has a customized set of display “widgets”
• Each Section has its own list of “Teams”
• Sections can be Open, Closed, or Moderated
• Sections have default templates similar to existing Atrium
Feature “tabs”
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13. TEAMS
Group Team
• A collection of Users (Organization) Members
Team
Members
Section
within
• Access to Section determined by
Group
intersection of Members and Teams
Group Access Section Access
• Must be a Member of the Group AND
• Must be a Member of one or more Teams assigned to
Section
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14. SECTION PAGE Group Name Section Notifications User
Mike Potter
Header
SAMPLE
myProject > mySection 3 Search
Admin
Recent Activity Block with Unlinked Header
Mike Potter This is a node with a teaser
My New Discussion Topic Teaser ipsum dolor sit amet consectetuer adipiscing elit.
By John Doe on October 11, 2009
Your idea looks great!
Recent Activity Dida Atassi This is a node with a teaser
Teaser ipsum dolor sit amet consectetuer adipiscing elit.
“River” My New Discussion Topic By John Doe on October 10, 2009
This is my first post to this group.
Content
more
Mike Potter
Issue WC-123 - Add content type
logged 2 hrs Block with Unlinked Header
OCT Client Wireframe Meeting This is a node with a teaser
Teaser ipsum dolor sit amet consectetuer adipiscing elit.
12 Fri Oct 12, 2012 1:00-2:00 By John Doe on October 11, 2009
Columbian
This is a node with a teaser
Teaser ipsum dolor sit amet consectetuer adipiscing elit.
By John Doe on October 10, 2009
more
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15. CORE AGGREGATION OpenAtrium Discussion
Discussion
Title
Date
Recent Activity
Mike Potter
My New Discussion Topic
Your idea looks great!
Body
• API allows Apps to notify Core of Image Dida Atassi
My New Discussion Topic
This is my first post to this group.
information: New Post, Modified File, OpenAtrium Tasks Mike Potter
Issue WC-123 - Add content type
logged 2 hrs
New Event, Task Due, etc Title
Task
OCT Client Wireframe Meeting
Fri Oct 12, 2012 1:00-2:00
DueDate 12
AssignedTo Columbian
Body
• OA2 Core displays this information in the Completed
Recent Activity “river” OpenAtrium Events
Event
• Details of each item in “river” is controlled
Title
StartDate
EndDate
by App via a View Mode (like Teaser)
Location
Description
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16. NOTIFICATIONS
• Notification module provides API for pluggable messages
• email (HTML), SMS, IM, etc
• Improved notification UI supports specific Members or
notifying Teams
• Users can also Subscribe to content they are interested
(adding a notification)
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17. DISCUSSION APP
• Renamed from “Blog”
• Intended for collaborative discussions around projects
• Topics and Replies use same content type (not Comments)
• Added WYSIWYG editor and Wiki markup
• File attachments
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18. DOCUMENTS APP
• Renamed from “Notebook”
• Can contain attached files, or inline rich text
• WYSIWYG and Wiki markup
• Can display list of other content that references a
document
• Hierarchical taxonomy “category” to replace “Books”
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19. CALENDAR APP
• Events integrated with Calendar module
• Better iCal integration with Google calendar
• Will likely be a community project
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20. TO-DO TASKS APP
• Light task list to replace CaseTracker
• Enhancing this App will be a community project
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21. OTHER APPS?
• New architecture will allow for a number of additional
applications to be added in the future.
• Will have a well-documented standard for adding Apps.
• Many 3rd-party integration App opportunities.
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22. TIMELINE
• Community Plugin Toolkit in January 2013
• documentation and examples of Open Atrium plugins
• Initial Alpha release in Spring 2013
• Beta release for DrupalCon Portland
• Continued support for additional Apps from community
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23. DATA MIGRATION
• Specific Apps responsible for migrating their own data
• OA Core migrates Groups, Members
• Focus on content data: discussions, documents, events, etc
• Not a D6 to D7 “upgrade”
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24. DISTRIBUTION
• Distribution on Drupal.org and Pantheon
• Will use Panopoly as a base distribution
• Feature modules (OA2 Groups, OA2 Discussion, etc) will be
available on Drupal.org
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25. CONCLUSION
• Want to support existing Open Atrium customers.
• Want to bring in MORE OA users (existing D7 sites).
• Want to blow people away with the flexibility and features.
• Want to build a greater Open Atrium community with more
ways to easily contribute.
• Community Plugin Toolkit coming in January!
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26. CONTRIBUTE
• Have ideas? Want to build a plugin App?
• Contact me!!
• mpotter@phase2technology.com
• mpotter on Drupal.org
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